Yup...as I acknolwedged, in a later message. The perils of posting messages
between 4 and 5AM. :)
"Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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> On 13-Sep-2002/04:30 -0500, Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >You can ignore what fstab
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On 13-Sep-2002/04:30 -0500, Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You can ignore what fstab says, in this case, since the floppy isn't
>mounted.
I think you're thinking of mtab.
>"mount /mnt/floppy" won't do any good, because /mnt/floppy is not a
I do stand corrected, to a point, on the "mount /mnt/floppy" thing from
earlier...with the fstab entry, if the floppy was ext2 formatted, it
should have worked.
However, as I pointed out below, if the floppy is DOS formatted, you need
to specify the full command, with file system type.
On Fri
You can ignore what fstab says, in this case, since the floppy isn't
mounted.
"mount /mnt/floppy" won't do any good, because /mnt/floppy is not a
device. "mount /dev/fd0" on its own won't do any good, because you aren't
specifying a filesystem type or a mount point.
If the floppy is an ext2
> I've used the command mount /mnt/floppy and mount /dev/fd0 but these spew
> out that extra command s are needed and the msdos format on the floppy is
> not recognised
You can always (as root) mount it manually:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
or even more specifically
mount /dev/fd0u1440 /mnt/f
Hi
I was introduced to Linux at RH7.0 level and are struggling to understand
why I cannot mount a floppy on a RH6.1 system I came across yesterday.
I've used the command mount /mnt/floppy and mount /dev/fd0 but these spew
out that extra command s are needed and the msdos format on the floppy is
